Deutsche Bundesbank — Direct investment positions (publication level) (BBFFDIPV)

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Direct investment positions at publication level (BBFFDIPV) is an official time series dataflow published by the Deutsche Bundesbank via its SDMX 2.1 REST API. It provides data on Germany's direct investment positions, part of the balance-of-payments and international investment statistics maintained by the Bundesbank. A single endpoint serves the data in XML (SDMX-ML), CSV, or JSON formats, and users can retrieve specific series using a key path together with startPeriod, endPeriod, or lastNObservations filters. Useful for economic and financial analysis of German cross-border investment.Direct investment positions (publication level) (BBFFDIPV) — official time series from the Deutsche Bundesbank, published as the BBFFDIPV dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csv) and JSON (?format=json); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters.

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Data schema (29 fields)

Filterable via the API (19)

BBK_STD_FREQBBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLEBBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCEBBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPARTBBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCEBBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPARTBBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRYBBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRYBBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEMBBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CATBBK_ES_INSTR_ASSETBBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITYBBK_ES_MEASURE_UNITBBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIPBBK_ES_VALUATIONBBK_ES_STAT_UNITBBK_ES_ACTIVITYBBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOCTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
BBK_STD_FREQ	dimension	1 codes (e.g. A)
BBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLE	dimension	2 codes (e.g. DI, DO)
BBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCE	dimension	17 codes (e.g. DE, DEBB00, DEBE00)
BBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPART	dimension	256 codes (e.g. A1, A2, A5)
BBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCE	dimension	1 codes (e.g. S1)
BBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPART	dimension	4 codes (e.g. IMC, PSC, ULT)
BBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRY	dimension	1 codes (e.g. LE)
BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRY	dimension	5 codes (e.g. A, L, NI)
BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEM	dimension	1 codes (e.g. FA)
BBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CAT	dimension	4 codes (e.g. D, EMP, ENT)
BBK_ES_INSTR_ASSET	dimension	2 codes (e.g. F, _Z)
BBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITY	dimension	1 codes (e.g. ALL)
BBK_ES_MEASURE_UNIT	dimension	2 codes (e.g. EUR, _AN)
BBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIP	dimension	1 codes (e.g. I)
BBK_ES_VALUATION	dimension	2 codes (e.g. V, _Z)
BBK_ES_STAT_UNIT	dimension	1 codes (e.g. _X)
BBK_ES_ACTIVITY	dimension	115 codes (e.g. _T, A, A01)
BBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOC	dimension	3 codes (e.g. _Z, 2, 1)
TIME_PERIOD	time	Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params.
OBS_VALUEObservation value	number	The observed numeric value for each cell.
TIME_FORMAT	attribute	—
BBK_DECIMALS	attribute	—
BBK_ID	attribute	—
BBK_UNIT	attribute	—
BBK_UNIT_MULT	attribute	—
BBK_TITLE_ENG	attribute	—
WEB_CATEGORY	attribute	—
BBK_DIFF_Y	attribute	—
OBS_STATUS	attribute	—

Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1OBS_VALUE: 20332 · TIME_PERIOD: 2010

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "20332",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2010",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "BBK_ES_STAT_UNIT": "_X",
  "BBK_ES_VALUATION": "V",
  "BBK_ES_INSTR_ASSET": "F",
  "BBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITY": "ALL",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_UNIT": "EUR",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOC": "_Z",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCE": "DE",
  "BBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CAT": "D",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEM": "FA",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRY": "A",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPART": "A1",
  "BBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIP": "I",
  "BBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRY": "LE",
  "BBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCE": "S1",
  "BBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPART": "IMC",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLE": "DI"
}

Record 2OBS_VALUE: 26011 · TIME_PERIOD: 2011

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "26011",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2011",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "BBK_ES_STAT_UNIT": "_X",
  "BBK_ES_VALUATION": "V",
  "BBK_ES_INSTR_ASSET": "F",
  "BBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITY": "ALL",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_UNIT": "EUR",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOC": "_Z",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCE": "DE",
  "BBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CAT": "D",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEM": "FA",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRY": "A",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPART": "A1",
  "BBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIP": "I",
  "BBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRY": "LE",
  "BBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCE": "S1",
  "BBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPART": "IMC",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLE": "DI"
}

Record 3OBS_VALUE: 22728 · TIME_PERIOD: 2012

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "22728",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2012",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "BBK_ES_STAT_UNIT": "_X",
  "BBK_ES_VALUATION": "V",
  "BBK_ES_INSTR_ASSET": "F",
  "BBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITY": "ALL",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_UNIT": "EUR",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOC": "_Z",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCE": "DE",
  "BBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CAT": "D",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEM": "FA",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRY": "A",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPART": "A1",
  "BBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIP": "I",
  "BBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRY": "LE",
  "BBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCE": "S1",
  "BBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPART": "IMC",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLE": "DI"
}

Record 4OBS_VALUE: 21945 · TIME_PERIOD: 2013

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "21945",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2013",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "BBK_ES_STAT_UNIT": "_X",
  "BBK_ES_VALUATION": "V",
  "BBK_ES_INSTR_ASSET": "F",
  "BBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITY": "ALL",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_UNIT": "EUR",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOC": "_Z",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCE": "DE",
  "BBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CAT": "D",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEM": "FA",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRY": "A",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPART": "A1",
  "BBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIP": "I",
  "BBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRY": "LE",
  "BBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCE": "S1",
  "BBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPART": "IMC",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLE": "DI"
}

Record 5OBS_VALUE: 25379 · TIME_PERIOD: 2014

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "25379",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2014",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "BBK_ES_STAT_UNIT": "_X",
  "BBK_ES_VALUATION": "V",
  "BBK_ES_INSTR_ASSET": "F",
  "BBK_ES_TYPE_ENTITY": "ALL",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_UNIT": "EUR",
  "BBK_ES_ACTIVITY_ALLOC": "_Z",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_REFERENCE": "DE",
  "BBK_ES_FUNCTIONAL_CAT": "D",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ITEM": "FA",
  "BBK_ES_ACCOUNTING_ENTRY": "A",
  "BBK_ES_AREA_COUNTERPART": "A1",
  "BBK_ES_FDI_RELATIONSHIP": "I",
  "BBK_ES_FLOW_STOCK_ENTRY": "LE",
  "BBK_ES_SECTOR_REFERENCE": "S1",
  "BBK_ES_LEVEL_COUNTERPART": "IMC",
  "BBK_ES_MEASURE_PRINCIPLE": "DI"
}

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